Friday's episode felt like the death knell of the series. They're rushing through plot points, trying to move the story forward at a pace that makes the show look absurd. I think they know they're going to get cancelled, especially since their ratings have been so low recently.

_________________Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bisque in space.

Rats, I've been meaning to watch this show from the beginning and catch up (haven't seen a single episode yet) but I will be so pissed if I get really into it and then it ends up being cancelled after a cliffhanger.

I read in an article that Leonard Nimoy would be coming back and that pissed me off, because he blew himself to bits! But then I decided it would be ok if he came back for flashbacks. And now I'm afraid Walter has foreshadowed that he will speak to them from beyond (to be ready is a suspenseful, spooky voice) and that peas me off again.

The episode with the disgusting beetle actually made me feel a bit bad for Fauxlivia. I dunno. She fell in love and never meant to. I still hate her, though, but I feel like that episode humanized her more.

I was so over the moon happy when Peter and real Olivia got to making sweet, sweet love. And I just know I'm going to get super pissed when Fauxlivia shows up with her skanky asparagus baby. It's bad enough they did the evil twin switcharoo. Adding an unplanned pregnancy to the mix is just ridiculous and hacky.

I don't know if I buy the conveniently repressed memories stuff. Hopefully they'll address that more.

I don't think the person who wrote that review has paid much attention to the show or maybe they missed the first season and a half. Walter has totally acknowledged that he tested on Olivia. I don't know if he remembered right away, but I think 17 years in a mental institution and having parts of your brain cut out is a fair enough excuse for that. They even go back to Jacksonville and try to scare the crepe out of Olivia in season 1 so that she can see the weird glow of stuff from the other side. And, every time one of the other cortexiphen kids was "activated" as an adult they implied the memories of the trials were suppressed by Bell and Walter. Really, Peter seems like the only one who is truly, simply just repressing a bunch of messed up memories of when he knew he was kidnapped. Or am I just being too nitpicky about someone being nitpicky?

_________________Gwyneth Paltrow: "I'm superstitious. Whenever I start a new movie I kill a hobo with a hammer."

I felt like the person who wrote the article hasn't really been watching the show either.

I also think it is unfair to blame the universe unraveling all on walter. It has been widely stated that both universes can not continue to exist as they are, and that the unraveling was already happening. walter just might have expedited things. I know walter did some totally horrible, inexcusable things, but i don't think stealing peter was one of them. He only wanted to save his life. he never intended to keep him.

whenever a television show decides to have a gun go off in the final act and then cheats by flashing back to act one and putting a gun on a table... it's just weak and lazy. as soon as i saw little peter stare at little olivia, i said: "OH COME ON!" outloud.

having said that: i just don't swallow that peter "accepted" his new mother and "forgot" about the other world. no! nope! he's not FOUR, he's like, what, 10? 11? and a GENIUS. i don't buy it.

i am choosing to ignore that episode and will not be allowing its events into my own character and story arcs for the show in my head. so. there.

i love walter soooo much, but... i think we both love the walter who's had parts of his brain removed, let's be honest. the: "let's make milkshakes, astral!" walter. the one thing this episode did well as far as i'm concerned was show that walter did have the potential to be the cruel man who walternate became. he had that in him. and obviously that side of himself repulsed him and he tried to do away with it. and what's left is the walter we love.

Holy shiitake! Talk about heartbreaking. I really liked this episode, but I am kinda wondering how much allegiance Peter has to this side now. I fear this ending with a ginormous double cross...and that would seriously peas me off. But I did love this episode for fully exploring how complex these relationships are and how no character really stands on the side of good or evil. Walking the line makes for much better tv in my opinion.